Is Mourinho erratically engineering an early exit?
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The Times
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🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Gab Marcotti and Natalie Sawyer are back to review more misery for Mourinho at Manchester United. After defeat at West Ham confirms their worst start in 29 years, has he taken United back to square one? And in the wake of in-fighting and increasingly random team selections, we ask if Mourinho is trying to orchestrate his own dismissal so he can leave Old Trafford with some credit in the bank. And what should the succession plan be towards the next manager?
Oliver Kay has been to Barcelona and tells us why a bid for Pogba in January is unlikely. And after his sensational equaliser at Stamford Bridge for Liverpool against Chelsea, is Daniel Sturridge now first reserve up front for England? Plus Bill Edgar tells us how much time Cardiff fans are spending watching Sean Morrison hold the ball in his hands.
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply game podcast from The Times. Hello and I'm Gabi Maccote and I'm Gabriel Marcotti and I thank you. We thank you for |
| 0:39.5 | joining us. Now in the studio with us today is the Times as Chief Stats, man. Is that your new title? |
| 0:45.6 | Well, it's whatever you call me. |
| 0:48.0 | Just last week. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, as you can tell it's Bill Edgar. |
| 0:51.0 | And down the line, speaking to us from his formal kitchen in |
| 0:55.9 | Rippenden. It's the chief football correspondent for the Times, Ollie Gay. |
| 0:59.6 | Hello? But as we always seem to do this season with Manchester United and Josie Morino. |
| 1:14.2 | It's been a week where United were knocked out to the Carabell Cup by Derby. |
| 1:17.8 | Paul Pogba was stripped to the vice captaincy and a training ground dispute between Pogba and |
| 1:22.3 | Marino was caught on camera. |
| 1:24.4 | So it's a miserable seven days that was completed with a three-one defeat at West Ham on Saturday lunchtime |
| 1:30.1 | confirming their worst start in 29 years. Bill you were on this |
| 1:34.8 | podcast last Monday bemoaning United style of play was this a new low for them? |
| 1:40.0 | They were again fairly cautious as usual. Whether it's a new low I don't know I think I |
| 1:47.1 | think we can now say for sure that this season they've had nine games and in no game if they dominated their opponents. |
| 1:54.5 | So they've really taken a big step back. |
| 1:56.9 | Morinio took them forward over two years and he did fine. |
| 2:00.1 | They'd sunk to a real low under Van Hal, but I think as it stands now he's taking |
| 2:04.8 | them all the way back again. |
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